The first beta for Poweramp v3 is now available with a radical design change and many improvements in tow

The Poweramp Music Player app was very popular because of the sound quality it had but lacked in terms of design. It looked like it was designed in 2010-ish. It was time for a change and as there weren't any updates since 2016, the developer has been cooking something from the ground-up. First, we saw some preview builds and today we got the official beta here for testing. It's supposed to be having a close to a final feature set. Let's dive into the changes it brings to the table:

A whole lot different UI

The UI got a nice refresh with settings for album covers which can be used as a background for the Now playing screen. It supports blur too and you can customize it to your liking by heading into the settings - tap on the hamburger menu button at the bottom right, select Settings - Background, and "Voila!".

There is also a new bottom bar with controls for Library, Equalizer, Search and Menu. The Library page has some new colored icons reminiscent of Android Pie and to open the Queue, you have to tap on the cover image from the Now playing screen.

I want to say that personally, I don't like the bottom bar with its grey colors, and the Now playing page is a bit cluttered.

Better sound quality

This update brings also some sound quality enhancements to the already great one. It also supports 64bit processing and devices with embedded DACs like the Lenovo X3. There are a few new eq features included.

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